BOWMANVILLE, ONT., Canada, August 18, 2008 - The American Le Mans Series schedule is filled with classic, North American road courses. For the drivers, venerable venues such as Sebring, Mid-Ohio, Road Atlanta and last weekend's Road America require a draw from a deep well of speed, precision and courage. Mosport International Raceway demands an even longer drill. The first purpose-built Canadian race course has changed little since it was carved into the hills of Bowmanville, Ontario in the late 1950s and it remains to many drivers a perfect mix of dream and nightmare. Therein lies the magic of Mosport. The track is a favorite among the drivers because it is a challenge. It demands respect and rewards speed and exact driving. Tafel Racing joins the American Le Mans Series north of the border for the Grand Prix of Mosport on Sunday, August 24. Drivers of the No. 71 Tafel/Bell Micro Racing Ferrari F430 GTC, Dominik Farnbacher (Ansbach, Germany) and Dirk Müller (a native of Germany now living in Monaco), enter the two hour and 45-minute event with three victories and one class pole position in 2008. Alex Figge (Denver) and Jim Tafel (Alpharetta, Ga.) will be making their fourth start of the season together in the No. 73 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GTC at Mosport.

Unlike some of the 11 stops on the American Le Mans Series calendar, the prestige of winning Mosport is less about its surroundings and more to do with the course. The 2.459-mile, 10-turn circuit is wickedly quick and brutally taxing on man and machine. To find success on the track, drivers must dig deep within themselves and trust their engineers and mechanics like never before. The opening right hander at the end of the front stretch sets up the entire circuit. Fast and falling-away, down and to the right, Turn One begins a rollercoaster ride of short straights and quick, sweeping corners before it leads to the deceiving fourth turn, a left-hand flick not unlike "the Kink" at Road America where Tafel Racing finished third on August 9. Turn Five, the Stirling Moss Hairpin, is a complex of turns broken up as 5A-5C and is the slowest section of the track before it spits the cars onto the long, slightly bending back-straightaway. Turns Eight and Nine are a series of 'esses' that bring the cars to the final turn, 10, where the tight right- hander launches the cars onto the uphill front-straight.

The quick corners and long-straights give multiple passing opportunities within class and almost limitless choices for the faster prototypes (LMP1 and LMP2 classes) to overtake the GT2 class entries. While every venue keeps the road car-based GT2 efforts looking not only ahead but in their mirrors, Mosport raises the multi-tasking capabilities of the drivers to an all-time high. The 2007 pole position was set by a Ferrari at one minute, 17.841 seconds equating to 113.724 miles per hour (mph). When compared to other venues on the schedule, only Road America has a faster average speed (115.581 mph set by Müller in qualifying earlier this month) and the Wisconsin track is one and a half miles longer in length than Mosport.

The Grand Prix of Mosport can be seen live on SPEED starting at 3 PM (ET), August 24. XM Satellite Radio Channel 166 will broadcast the full American Le Mans Series Radio web broadcast live also going on air at 3 PM (ET). For the first time in Series history, qualifying can be seen live via streaming video available at both www.AmericanLeMans.com and www.SPEEDTV.com beginning at 1:30 PM (ET), August 23. Live timing and scoring of each on-track session and the live American Le Mans Series Radio Web broadcast can be found at www.AmericanLeMans.com.

LKHART LAKE, Wisc., August 9, 2008 - The battles between Ferrari and Porsche have become legendary over the decades but few times has the struggle been as physical as it was in today's Generac 500 at Road America. The No. 71 Tafel/Bell Micro Racing Ferrari F430 GTC of Dirk Müller (a native of Germany living in Monaco) and Dominik Farnbacher (Ansbach, Germany) finished third from the class pole position - the Cumming, Ga.-based team's first of the season and first in the American Le Mans Series - with battle scars on all corners of the Ferrari. The No. 73 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GTC co-driven by Alex Figge (Denver, Col.) and Jim Tafel (Alpharetta, Ga.) ran as high as third on the 4.048-mile, 14-turn circuit but would finish ninth after an incident cost them several minutes in the pits to repair damage. Tafel Racing has three Series race victories to-date - St. Petersburg, Long Beach and Mid-Ohio - and five podium finishes in seven 2008 starts. The two-car effort remains second in the Team Championship 18 points behind Flying Lizard Motorsports. Four races remain in the 2008 American Le Mans Series GT2 class season.

No. 71 Tafel/Bell Micro Racing Ferrari F430 GTC

Drivers: Dominik Farnbacher (Ansbach, Germany), Dirk Müller (a native of Germany now living in Monaco)

Dominik Farnbacher started from his first American Le Mans Series pole position and held the top spot for most of the race's first 30 minutes. In the process, the young German set the fastest race lap (two minutes, 7.958 seconds). It is Farnbacher's second consecutive fastest race lap, the first coming in the team's Mid-Ohio victory. At the end of the race's first hour, Technical Director Tony Dowe (Cumming, Ga.), betting on a fuel conservation race, called for the Bell Micro Ferrari's first pit stop to be for fuel only - double- stinting Farnbacher and the Michelin tires. The strategy played-out ideally over the next three hours as everyone fought to maximize fuel mileage. Dirk Müller took over driving duties just short of the race's midpoint and would see the most heated battle on the race's final lap. Despite being an endurance event, the entire race came down to the last half of the last lap. With a late race caution removing any concern of the need for fuel stops for all the front runners, it became a head-to-head fight among the best in the GT2 class. Müller took the white flag in third position chasing the top-two runners who were in a dire battle of their own. The leading Ferrari would spin in front of the eventual race-winning No. 87 Porsche and the No. 71. Müller moved into second only to be hit in Turn Five by the No. 45 Porsche while battling. While the damage did not eliminate the Tafel entry it did allow the Porsche passed dropping the Bell Micro No. 71 to third. Farnbacher and Müller maintain second in the Driver's Championship; seven points behind the drivers of the No. 45 Porsche.

No. 73 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GTC

Drivers: Alex Figge (Denver, Col.), Jim Tafel (Alpharetta, Ga.)

Alex Figge and Jim Tafel ran their strongest race of the season at the four hour Road America event. Figge started the race from seventh and held it for the first 45 minutes. On Lap 40, the race's second caution period, team engineer David Fullerton (Cumming. Ga.) called for Figge to stay on course moving the No. 73 Ferrari to third in class. Figge remained in the top-five until stopping for fuel at the one hour, 14-minute mark. At two-hours, Jim Tafel took over the No. 73 in the sixth position. For 45 minutes Tafel held in the top-10 until spinning on fluid in Turn 14. Contact with the tire wall at the end of the spin resulted in damage to the left rear wheel and bodywork. A stop for repairs dropped the car to ninth, five laps behind the class leaders. Tafel would take the checkered flag in that position to earn the No. 73 team's fourth top-10 of the season.